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The Mysterious Hessdalen Lights

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Have you ever heard of party dots? Well, you have now. This week Alex takes us to Norway and tries to enlighten Christie about the mysterious Hessdalen lights. This odd phenomena from the 80's has opened up for some weird conspiracy theories as to what they are, and what they mean. Are they caused by a natural battery? Are they somehow related to UFO's? What does Christie know about the Northern Lights? You'll have to tune in to find out more! Need a distraction? We got you.

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Resources:

  • The Phenomenauts Podcast – The Phenomenauts: 28 – Hessdalen Lights, Taste the Mystery - May 6th, 2019
  • EarthSky.org - Has the ball lightning mystery been solved? - Posted by Paul Scott - June 14, 2019
  • Torchigin, Vladimir & Torchigin, A.V.. (2005). Phenomenon of ball lightning and its outgrowths. Physics Letters A. 337. 112–120. 10.1016/j.physleta.2005.01.044.
  • Visit Norway website – Facts and Fiction about the Northern Lights 
  • Frontiers in Earth Science website article – “To investigate or not to investigate? Researchers views on unexplored Atmospheric light phenomena” – By Etienne Caron & Pouya Faridi - February 24th, 2016 
  • Besttimetovisit.co.nz website 
  • The Viking network website - August 14th, 2004 
  • Science Norway website – “Little Valley – A Giant Battery?” – Arnfinn Christensen 
  • Daily Mail website – “Has the Mystery of glowing Norwegian orbs be solved? Expert claims natural battery creates the amazing light show” – By Sarah Griffiths – May 19th, 2014 
  • Paper written by Erling T Strand - “Using an unknown mystery as a case for teaching students information communication technologies” – date unknown – School of Computer Sciences, Ostfold College (Halden, Norway).
  • The Skeptoid Media website article – The Hessdalen Lights – by Brian Dunning – August 9th, 2011 --- Brian also has a podcast called the Skeptoid Podcast. 
  • The National Geographic article – “Ball Lightening: weird, mysterious, perplexing and deadly” – By: Christina Nunez – March 5th, 2019

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